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Show Uncover Work of Da Vinci The oldest canal lock In Franco, built by Leonardo da Vlncl under tlu reign of Francois I In the Sixtecnili century, has Just been rediscovered near Vierzon. Da Vlncl, who boasted that he was as great un engineer as he was painter, paint-er, constructed he lock because the ltlver Loire lacked sulliclent waler for the boats, with their cargoes of salt, that came up from Nantes. In the course of centuries the lock disappeared disap-peared and even Its exact situation was forgotten, but the old foundations planned by the painter of "Mona Lisa" have just been unearthed. |